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Antiwar.com Anwar al-Awlaki and American Exceptionalism Why the assassination of an American citizen – by his own government – is a big dealby Justin Raimondo, October 05, 2011 When US special forces took aim at Anwar al-Awlaki, and …Read more . . .

Communiqué by Elias Davidsson on Osama bin Laden’s murder According to mass media, Osama bin Laden was murdered yesterday, on May 1st, 2011. He was murdered with “other family members”, whose identity is still unknown. The President of the United States of …Read more . . .

BUSH RESTRICTS LAWMAKER ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED INFO http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/2001/10/101001.html In an extraordinary exercise of official secrecy, President Bush ordered six agency heads to withhold classified information from all but eight designated members of Congress. The move immediately drew sharp criticism from …Read more . . .

Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency May 18, 2007 By Matthew Rothschild With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for responding to a catastrophic attack. In a …Read more . . .

"It allows the government to seize individuals on American soil and detain them indefinitely with no opportunity to challenge their detention in court," Senator Russ Feingold said. "And the new law would permit an individual to be convicted on the basis of coerced testimony and even allow someone convicted under these rules to be put to death."

In the guise of fighting terrorism and maintaining public order, Tony Blair’s government has quietly and systematically taken power from Parliament and from the British people. The author charts a nine-year assault on civil liberties that reveals the danger of trading freedom for security?and must have Churchill spinning in his grave

Bush Has Widened Authority of C.I.A. to Kill Terrorists By James Risen and David Johnston The New York Times December 15, 2002 WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 ? The Bush administration has prepared a list of terrorist leaders the Central Intelligence …Read more . . .

Bush White House embraces assassination By Bill Vann 3 October 2002 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/bush-o03.shtmlWorld Socialist Web Site “The Bush administration represents the coming to power of a criminal element in the American ruling class … in its political methods, social base and …Read more . . .

U.S. policy on assassinations (CNN) — In 1976, President Ford issued Executive Order 11905 to clarify U.S. foreign intelligence activities. The order was enacted in response to the post-Watergate revelations that the CIA had staged multiple attempts on the life …Read more . . .

Bush Gives Green Light to CIAfor Assassination of Named Terrorists by David Gow, October 29, 2001, The Guardian (U.K) ‘Covert killings to take in less important al-Qaida figures’ President Bush has given the CIA an explicit go-ahead to carry out covert missions …Read more . . .

The formal trappings of dictatorship: George W. Bush’s determination that a certain person is an "enemy combatant" See: http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/almarri/almarri62303exord.pdf …Read more . . .

POLICE STATE IN AMERICA: Now Bush can lock up anyone forever without charge The final levee has given way… by Siddharth Varadarajan September 10, 2005 GlobalResearch.ca As if the official ineptitude of the Bush administration in the aftermath of …Read more . . .